Quote Originally Posted by GunksFoy View Post
I was basically just defending the OP from the rather rude naysayers, and pointing out that it really isn't that asinine.
Actually...it is asinine. We where warned many days in advance. Told why and there is historical proof that this is SOP for SE's handling patches for this game. What's next? Major expansion launch (5.x) and we go down for 2 to 3 days and people are going to demand a month of subscription time? Yeah - Right. (Consider how rare it is in the first place)

I would rather they take the time they need to make sure the damn thing doesn't break as opposed to abruptly launching content and then having the servers go down again..and again..and again to get something right. Bad enough there's no "beta test" site to play with to test new content out like EVE Online does....so everything depends on them getting it right the first time. Even they have trouble with that (IE Emergency patch deployments)

Something that has been a recent thing with EVE Online (many false starts/issues lately)

Maybe you should take the time to consider SE's perspective in terms of deployment before you defend someone's utterly foolish request of compensation.

As I said before - it would be different if the game broke down after the maintenance and kept causing problems. Then you have grounds for it.

But without that....you got zero,nadda,zip.

And as its been said before, with plenty of warning, it comes down to the player to organize their time in their lives to do things. Asking to get paid for ignorance is not going to work here.